8 Layers of Lizzi

I got this from Brandie’s blog and thought it would be fun. You should do it too…

LAYER ONE:
*Name: Elizabeth Knowlton
*Birth date: October 11, 1978
*Birthplace: Mission Viejo, CA
*Current Location: Gold Canyon
*Eye Color: Hazel
*Hair Color: Brown
*Height: 5′ 4″
*Righty or Lefty: Righty
*Zodiac Sign: Libra (everything in balance)

LAYER TWO:
*Your heritage: English, Irish, Sicilian, Hungarian, Polish, German
*The shoes you wore today: My red Reef flip flops (when don’t I wear flip flops?)
*Your weakness: Books (reading and buying), purses, Diet Coke
*Your fears: Something happening to my child or husband and deep water
*Your perfect pizza: Bruce’s Special (linguica, salami, mushrooms, garlic, olive oil) from Gaspare’s in San Francisco
*Goal you’d like to achieve: To be debt free

LAYER THREE:
*Your most overused phrase on AIM: Don’t use AIM
*Your first waking thoughts: I wonder if I can get in 10 more minutes of sleep?
*Your best physical feature: My eyes and lips
*Your most missed memory: Weekends at my Grandfather’s house on Hidden Valley Lake – playing and lounging on the beach

LAYER FOUR:
*Pepsi or Coke: (Diet) Coke
*McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonalds (You gotta love McDonalds double cheeseburgers, right Todd?)
*Single or group dates: Single dates
*Adidas or Nike: Neither – Asics
*Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither
*Chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla
*Cappuccino or coffee: Yuck! I don’t like coffee.

LAYER FIVE:
*Smoke: No
*Cuss: I’ve been known to (on occasion…)
*Sing: In the shower (if I’m awake enough) and definitely in the car
*Take a shower every day: Of course
*Do you think you’ve been in love: I’m in love with my husband
*Want to go to college: I’m a history major from Iowa State.
*Liked high school: Yes, but I cringe when I look at my yearbooks!
*Want to get married: I am married and enjoying it.
*Believe in yourself: Yes
*Get motion sickness: Yes
*Think you’re attractive: Yes (I don’t sound vain do I?)
*Think you’re a health freak: No, but I probably should be a little more (see layer 4.)
*Get along with your parent(s): Yes
*Like thunderstorms: I love them but am afraid lightning will hit our neighbor’s tree or power pole behind us and damage our house.
*Play an instrument: No, I’m not musically inclined at all.

LAYER SIX:
In the past month…
*Drank alcohol: No
*Smoked: No
*Done a drug: No
*Made Out: That’s for me to know!
*Gone on a date: No… Mirandi, can you babysit for us?!?!
*Gone to the mall?: I think so.
*Eaten an entire box of Oreos?: No, but Oreos do sound good right now.
*Eaten sushi: No
*Been on stage: No
*Been dumped: No
*Gone skating: No
*Made homemade cookies: Yes
*Gone skinny dipping: No
*Dyed your hair: No
*Stolen Anything: Yes…change from my husband’s change bucket…shhh don’t tell.

LAYER SEVEN:
Ever…
*Played a game that required removal of clothing: No
*Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Yes – not to be repeated in the future.
*Been caught “doing something”: No
*Been called a tease: No
*Gotten beaten up: No
*Shoplifted: No
*Changed who you were to fit in: Not anymore…but hasn’t everyone done that at some point?

LAYER EIGHT:
*Age you hope to be married: I am married, made it by the time I was 25.
*Numbers and Names of Children: 1, Beau
*Describe your Dream Wedding: Just the two of us at Lake Tahoe…Lucky me, that’s what we did!
*How do you want to die: In my sleep
*Where you want to go to college: I already graduated from Iowa State, but would love to get a graduate degree one day.
*What do you want to be when you grow up: I guess I’m already a grownup but I still want to be a designer, artist, writer, baker, editor…
*What country would you most like to visit: Three way tie – France, Italy, and Greece
*Number of drugs taken illegally: 0
*Number of people I could trust with my life: 4 (but really, hopefully more)
*Number of CDs that I own: Lots and lots
*Number of piercings: My ears
*Number of tattoos: None
*Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper?: I’m not sure…I know I was in the paper for the Dean’s List in college.
*Number of scars on my body: Two that I can think of – one on my knee and my c-section scar.
*Number of things in my past that I regret: Not going to my Grandfather’s funeral.